Showing the amazing value and potential of community pharmacy in Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff and Belfast, on radio and TV, online, and in the NHS and our wider healthcare community
Making the case for community pharmacy
The voice of independent community pharmacy
The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) is the voice of independent community pharmacies across the UK with more than 6,000 members and a key provider of services to the pharmacy sector.
Fighting for independent pharmacy
The NPA is fighting for a properly funded, sustainable pharmacy network offering ever better services. We are a powerful voice for your pharmacy - showing how pharmacies benefting millions of patients every day.
Our Save Our Pharmacies campaign has given greater profile than ever before to the crisis facing pharmacies and the need for a properly funded pharmacy network .
Powerful advocacy for pharmacies
In the media, in politics and in the local and national structures of the NHS, the NPA is fighting every day for pharmacies:
Sustainable funding that properly supports front line care
A larger place supporting communities in their neighbourhood NHS
Better opportunities to prevent disease and serve our millions of patients
Our ideas and publications
The NPA is at the heart of thinking about how pharmacies operate and how they can develop - creating ideas that policymakers want to adopt. Talk to us about how pharmacies can support millions of people, now and into the future.
Latest News
Gareth Jones
Director of External and Corporate Affairs
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Gareth Jones
Director of External and Corporate Affairs
Gareth Jones is the NPA’s Director of External and Corporate Affairs. He is a pharmacist and leads the NPA’s work on policy and external engagement with the NHS, politicians, civil servants and other key stakeholders. He works with other pharmacy associations across Europe and globally via the World Pharmacy Council. He also leads the NPA’s corporate affairs function, supporting the NPA Board, made up entirely of frontline members, in setting the organisation’s direction.
Jill Loader
Adviser
Ben Russell
Director of Communications and Marketing
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Ben Russell
Director of Communications and Marketing
Ben has experience in journalism, politics, the non-profit sector and local government. Prior to the NPA, he was a Political Correspondent for the Independent, led press relations for the Local Government Association and was Director of Communications at the Charities Aid Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in Europe and at the Rhodes Trust, home of the Rhodes Scholarship.
Stephen Fishwick
Head of Communications
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Stephen Fishwick
Head of Communications
Stephen Fishwick is Head of Communications at the NPA.
He has been prominent in NPA campaigns for fair funding, helping to collect record-breaking public petitions in the process.
Previously, Stephen worked as a PR consultant and in campaigning roles at a large healthcare charity, and also headed public engagement for an NHS trust.
Fun fact: Stephen once appeared on the professional stage, in a production of Olivier Twist.
Nick Parker-Sutton
Senior Press Officer
